Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will make an assessment of the extent to which the recommendations of the report by the Executive Office of the President's National Science and Technology Council Committee on Technology, entitled Preparing for the future of artificial intelligence, published in October 2016, apply to the UK.

The Royal Society is currently examining the implications of Machine Learning, alongside the Royal Society and British Academy work on Data Governance. These projects aim to develop recommendations for data governance arrangements, including ensuring the UK remains a world leader in the use and governance of artificial intelligence. The project will involve experts from across disciplines, and will look at current and historical case studies of data governance, and of broader technology governance, from a range of countries and sectors. Initial recommendations are expected in 2017.